University of Alabama doctoral student Alireza Doroudi, an Iranian citizen, was picked up at his home on 5 a.m. Tuesday by ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

More than 20 earthquakes have hit central and southeast Asia in the last 24 hours, with one of the most powerful in 75 years in Myanmar.

Central Asia summit, to be held on April 3-4 in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, is seen by some observers as a potential ...

Newsweek has created a map showing where in Asia the U.S. has travel warnings in place. The U.S. State Department told ...

A powerful earthquake rocked South-East Asia yesterday, killing several people, bringing down a skyscraper under construction in Bangkok and toppling buildings in neighbouring Myanmar, where the ...

and maps of population density and vulnerability of buildings. The force caused a mosque in Mandalay to collapse, with at least ten worshippers reported to have been killed. More than 20 ...

Bangladesh says NYT report claiming rise in Islamist extremism 'misleading' Bangladesh has strongly refuted a New York Times report claiming a rise in Islamist extremism. Chief adviser Muhammad ...

Asia/Tokyo is a UTC +09:00 timezone offset where as Eastern Standard Time (EST) is a UTC -5:0 timezone offset. Time difference between Asia/Tokyo and Eastern Standard Time (EST) is 14:0 hours ie., ...

Asia/Kolkata is a UTC +05:30 timezone offset where as US/Eastern is a UTC -4:0 timezone offset. Time difference between Asia/Kolkata and US/Eastern is 9:30 hours ie., US/Eastern time is always 9:30 ...

A major, 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Myanmar on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. At a depth of about six miles, the quake was relatively shallow, which made it ...